Monday, September 21, 2009

Monday Brainstorm Session

We had a productive brainstorming session earlier today. Jenny erased my laboriously drawn coconut drink, but replaced it with a viable project idea. Our IBM project, at least, is going to be about the availability of dining halls. The plan is to track the current occupancy automatically with infrared cameras, if I recall the specifics correctly.

The composting company I brought up is the Landscape Recycling Center. They don't accept food, however, so they may as well not exist for our purposes.

"Bothering the sustainability commission until they complete all their cool projects" is presumably not a good project idea.

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

iFoundry picnic and State Farm contact-September 17th

Today our SSE group (now named TIPS) met with our contact(s) at State Farm. The meeting went well enough, I think. We didn't have a lot to say, but all we're doing at this stage in the game is getting all our ducks in a row so that they can be informed of things(to mix metaphors with non-metaphors).

I'd like to draw up a customer service flowchart at some point. The trouble with such a flowchart is proper notation, because customers have different shapes, sizes, and contact methods. My inner CS major wants to centralize a large customer pool then track them by their contact methods and their needs. I'll sleep on it, it's possible I've been doing too much algorithm design for work recently.